Santhosh Thottingal

The hyphenation rules for Indian languages I maintain now relicensed to much permissive MIT license.

I did not have much exposure to open source Electronic Design Automation tools during my graduation course in Electronics and Communication Engineering.

ഈ വരുന്ന ജൂണ്‍ 30 നു് ഒരു പ്രത്യേകതയുണ്ടു്.

At Wikimedia, I am currently working on ContentTranslation tool, a machine aided translation system to help translating articles from one language to another.

Keraleeyam is a new unicode malayalam font designed for titles.

A new handwriting style font for Malayalam is in development.

This is a short documentation on getting Wacom Bamboo CTH301K working in Debian.

I presented the Content Translation project of my team at Wikimania 2014 at London.

Six years back I wrote a javascript version of popular Swanalekha input method.

Video of our presentation from 7th Multilingual Workshop by W3C, Madrid, Spain, May 7-8 https://www.youtube.com/embed/_tNancNqFIQ Best Practices on the Design of Translation- Pau Giner, David Chan and Santhosh Thottingal.

XeTeX is an extension of TeX with built-in support for Unicode and OpenType.

How to configure Ubuntu 14.04 for typing in Malayalam

Also see Swanalekha input method documentation

Frequency modulation is a common analog modulation technique.

I am a mentor for Google Summer of Code 2014 for SMC.

English and many other languages have only 2 plural forms.

Browsers provide an option to choose the preferred language a website to be shown, often named as “Accept language“. [][2] Firefox accept language preference These preference values allows websites to deliver a suitable language version to the user.

I will be speaking at the upcoming W3C workshop at Madrid.

I was in need of a manual for introducing the analog communication lab experiments to students who had no prior exposure to electronic circuits or analog communication techniques.

Ubuntu Trusty Tahr is going to be released on April 17th 2014.

For an advanced logging system for nodejs applications, winston is very helpful.

Mediawiki is moving from PHP array based localisation file format to json format.

I use Brackets for web development.

NotoSansMalayalam has the following ligature rules for ന്റ (nta)- All uses Akhand Opentype feature uni0D7B(ൻ) + uni0D4D(്) + uni0D31(റ) => ൻ + ് + റ uni0D28(ന) + uni0D4D(്) + uni200D(ZWNJ) +uni0D31(റ) => ന്‍ + റ uni0D28(ന) + uni0D4D(്) + uni0D31(റ) => ന്…

NotoSansMalayalam is a font released by Google internationalization team under noto project.

One of the integral building blocks for providing multilingual support for digital content are fonts.

This is a follow up of a 4 year old blog post about hyphenation.

Swathanthra Malayalam Computing project announced the release of new version of Malayalam unicode fonts this week.

This post is some notes on the current state of SVG Fonts.

Malayalam Wikisource community today released the first offline version of Malayalam wikisource during the 4th annual wiki meetup of Malayalam wikimedians.

I am just back from Mediawiki Berlin Hackathon.

Sourashtra is a language spoken by Sourashtra people living in South Tamilnadu and Gujarat of India.

A demo of cross language approximate search in Indic text: The Malayalam word സാമ്പാര്‍ is compared against a paragraph from http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambar.

A few months back, we started fixing the collation rules of Indian languages in GNU C library.

Recently, while preparing a critique for IDN Policy for Malayalam language prepared by CDAC, I noticed that ICANN does not allow control characters in the domain names.

Recently we released two Jabber buddy bots for dictionary lookup.

On 22nd August, I conducted a workout session with Praveen on Indic Language Computing at Red Hat Office, Pune.

I left Chennai on Wednesday(8th) and reached Frankfurt airport on Thursday morning.

I will be attending Wikimania 2010, Gdansk, Poland.

As part of Malayalam Wikipedia Meetup 2010 , today Malayalam wikipedia releases 500 selected articles on a CD ROM.

A few days back I came to know about this project :Text Prediction on GNOME based on GTK+ Input Method context.

FOSS.IN 2009 starts on 1st December.

One year back I wrote about how to use Inkscape as a workaround solution for DTP in indic scripts.

Openoffice Indic Natural Language group announces the availability of the following Openoffice hyphenation dictionary extensions.

[Please read the Silpa project annoucement before reading this blogpost] Project silpa is getting ready for a 0.1 version.

Soundex is a phonetic indexing algorithm.

I was reading an article named “Why Can’t a Computer Translate More Like a Person?”

Recently I had to extract text from PDF files for indexing the content using Apache Lucene.

Many of my friends already know about a project I am working on, this is a public announcement of that.

I am a language computing professional and typeface designer with expertise in digital typography.